DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite

[後半に日本語レビューあり] [h1]Classic Bullet Hell Reignited with a New Stage and Shooting Royale[/h1] Built from the vertical bullet-hell shooter that began in arcades in 2008 and later reached Steam in 2016, this new release has been reworked by CAVE itself. It keeps the beauty and tension of the original bullet patterns while adding a new stage, new characters, new BGM, and Shooting Royale, where up to 10 players compete at once. Rather than leaning on nostalgia alone, it returns to Steam in 2026 with the series' familiar feel intact and new ways to play layered on top. At its heart is classic CAVE-style bullet hell: read the flow of enemy fire, slip your ship through tiny gaps, and keep shooting. Patterns that look like solid walls at first gradually reveal routes after repeated attempts. Blue and pink bullets spread into geometric formations, creating the genre's signature tension as you weave between them. Huge lasers, explosions, and rising hit counts pile onto the screen, and the satisfaction of clearing a gap exactly as intended keeps pulling you into the next run. The new Stage 6 gives players who already know the existing stages a fresh reason to return. Read where bullets appear …

"NOT DEAD YET." It's dead.

For these kind of games is where I wish Steam has a value rating instead of a Yes / No binary system. but such is Valve's mandate. It's an expansion of DFK Ver 1.5 with Stage 1-6 added, the Beyond route. Lengthy 9 minutes-ish gauntlet that is slightly harder than Stage 5 but much more hectic with its scoring insanity. It recycled many backgrounds from DDP, DOJ, and even Espgaluda 2. Do you like this? I loved it. Then there is the Shmup Royale mode. It's a great iteration of a Twinkle Star Sprites clone but with 10 players at once, but either the matchmaking is so strict or the population is so low because they're busy practicing on Arcade, expect to fight bots most of the time. Still fun, but depends on if you like getting directly sabotaged almost like it's a Mario Kart game. The patterns here are nerfed to around Novice patterns, giving room to dodge the player-sent threats. I loved this, but if you care so much about real player population, don't buy this game for this alone. Last but not least, from the shmup royale coins you can gacha roll for Wallpapers, Avatar icons and Concept arts. Including some spicy clanker girl arts within! There is like over 150 of them and r…

The game is great. It's unfortunately that there are little players online, which come due to some harsh reviews. This port is a 'plain' arcade port with assist mode if you want to learn the game. If you really want more training, you better get the other version with more versions and training modes. I can imagine why Cave did not release an 'updated' version from what was released earlier. Business wise, that would kill the other release and profits. Also, I think it would be more expensive to have it added. Cave finally develops and release a game after so many years. There are a lot of fans for their games, not sure why there is so many people bashing this one. A little bit more gratefulness would be in place. For the price I don't think it's that bad. I love the chaos with online playing (and normally I am not an online player at all), even though it's mostly bots. Gameplay might not be perfect, but I think that's part of the fun. Sometimes I can't see why I died, but later on, I think it makes more sense if you understand the game better. This game is more recommended for players who already familiar with the game. I do hope more people will start playing this game. I r…

It is like an expansion of the original game, some new content, some content missing, but it's 60fps solid, no slowdowns on heavy areas, very good and not very difficult as the others.

The game crashed three times for me. It is missing multiple arrange modes and extras included in the previous release. The online battle mode is just bots and very confusing to play. TATE mode doesn't work for the menus and has many bugs. The actual game is good, but everything around it is worse than the previous release.